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Decoration in the Octagon (Garden Pavilion) in Buckingham Palace, London, (1928). 'About 1845...The whole design is by Ludwig Gruner, the painting was executed by English artists. The picture on left, over the door, by William Ross; the picture over the fireplace by C. L. Eastlake (1793-1865)...the marble pilasters of the fireplace by S. B. Stephens. The engraver L. Gruner was born at Dresden in 1801 and died there in 1882. In 1856 he was appointed Director of the Dresden Prints Cabinet...He was often employed in England'. The Garden Pavilion (demolished in the 1930s) in the garden of Buckingham Palace was initially intended as 'a place of Refuge'. It turned into a major project and served as Prince Albert's personal laboratory where he, Charles Eastlake and Ludwig Gruner oversaw the experimental work of British artists. After L. Gruner. Plate CXVII, fig 216, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by...